{"id":1982,"date":"2011-10-11T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2011-10-11T10:11:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:11:37","slug":"study-abroad-unemployment-and-retraining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/study-abroad-unemployment-and-retraining\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Abroad: Unemployment and Retraining"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Journal<\/a> <\/em>asks whether we can learn something about addressing unemployment by studying elements of the unemployment insurance systems of other OECD nations, many of which make re-training a key part of transitioning from UI back to employment.\u00a0 The American Jobs Act (dead man walking) contains a “bridge to work” provision that would include similar job training and apprenticeship programs (already in place in Georgia and North Carolina) as a means of aiding the long-term unemployed.\u00a0 The Journal <\/em>interviewed Dimitri Papadimitriou<\/a> for their piece, who suggests that while a “bridge to work”-type program would be beneficial, this sort of thing would amount to (at best) nibbling around the edges of the unemployment problem:\u00a0 “Papadimitriou cautioned that without a more general economic recovery, simply training unemployed workers doesn\u2019t guarantee jobs.”\u00a0 (read it here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“Bridge to work” might be a positive addition to the social insurance system, but we shouldn’t mistake it for a “solution” to our unemployment problem.\u00a0 As Papadimitriou illustrates in this Strategic Analysis<\/a>, we should not expect unemployment to come down without a massive influx of demand, whether foreign (exports) or domestic (higher government deficits).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Journal asks whether we can learn something about addressing unemployment by studying elements of the unemployment insurance systems of other OECD nations, many of which make re-training a key part of transitioning from UI back to employment.\u00a0 The American Jobs Act (dead man walking) contains a “bridge to work” provision that would include […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-policy","category-employment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}